Letter to the editor | Decisions have impact

Shortly before Christmas, Gov. Tom Corbett announced that he would not change the minimum wage.

My reaction was, “What a scrooge!”

His reasoning was Pennsylvania’s financial recovery. Therefore, this was not a good time to up wages, and so on.

Yet in Sundays’ CDT, Mark Nale’s column offers two excellent points: Current legislators have treated the Marcellus shale gas industry differently from any other industry in Pennsylvania; and Pennsylvania’s “impact fee” is at a considerably lower rate than that of any other major gas-producing state’s extraction tax. Neighboring states have a 4 percent to 5 percent tax.

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Man strips naked, straddles vehicle after car crash

A man was facing multiple charges, police said, after allegedly crashing his car in a multi-vehicle collision, assaulting another man, stripping naked, straddling a vehicle as it drove along a highway, and causing traffic delays on December 11.
The incident happened on Route 28 in Virginia. This footage shows the aftermath of the collision. The man can be seen behaving erratically, and strips naked for a period. He is also seen straddling the headboard frame of a vehicle.
Police said the man was detained for a short time on the grounds of Dulles Airport, after the events in this footage.
“He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” police said. “No one else was injured during the crash or assault. Charges are pending as we are working to identify the suspect.”